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Been testing out bucket in Lapras VMAX. You'll love it. Lapras's biggest problem for me has always been being short of 1 or 2 energy for KO. Bucket no longer makes this a problem. BUT I'll say this about Lapras VMAX in this current metagame is the versatility. It has a good matchup against ADP...

I've said before in a thread they are trying to make it so VMAXs have to have an evolution bench sitter support Pokemon. There are some exceptions so far but not ground breaking exceptions. At the end of the day, i I would rather have a format where I don't scoop on turn 2 because my opponent...

Both I can say from experience have alot of potential in the metagame, they were all just missing some key pieces. Frosmoth- when playing Lapras VMAX I consisently found myself being one energy short of a KO. But water bucket should make that alot easier now. Rillaboom- Grass box was missing...

You attack twice with its second attack. That's 8 energy and 10 cards discarded from your deck... That's assuming you were able to get it off and didn't discard anything vital. (Spoiler alert from anyone who played Exadrill, you will) even if the discarding wasn't the effect still getting 3-4...

This will look perfect in a Tyranitar collection shrine. Will see 0 play even in casual fun decks.

I'd wait ti'll we get confirmation on a couple of things: If rotation will happen for the 2020 season. What we will get in the next theme decks for Rebel Clash What's going on with Covid-19 when we will all be able to see each other in person and play at leagues Waiting till August for the next...

Milotic is that weird card that somewhat counters Dragapult VMAX but also being exposed because we know Feebas is going to be a 30-40 HP basic lol

I've been testing Shaymin out in this list and it's been a card just sleeping in the deck never even used lol Rillaboom's main goal is to get energy on to discard instantly. Shaymin's damage output is very low when used in conjunction with Rillaboom's gameplan. That's your 60th card that you can...

Alright looking at them more in depth I may have judged Centiskorch a bit too harshly. It's that card that can punish slow play from the opponent or just keep momentum with healing. It has a ton of tools at its disposal to make it a huge threat. Gardevoir VMAX however has too many things going...

Once you get past the shiny glamour of new VMAX Pokemon you'll see they are pretty meh. Especially when rotation happens

I'm excited this time for this year's rotation. Alot of standard will be mostly the same except for the loss of Malamar and Stall/Control variants that rely on Oranguru. The latter people will be happy to see gone.

From what Pokémon has been doing lately, I wouldn't be surprised to see more Professor's Research+ Quick ball in them. Maybe a Scyther or Ludicolo line because they really look like they are trying to push the idea of evolving to do more damage or cheat evolutions. And my last prediction will be...

Now that we see the dark acceleration we will have this makes Grimsnarl more playable. The damage for what it cost+Setting up a stage 2 is a fit in the Vmax Metagame. Thank goodness its damage cap is at 270 and not 320 otherwise this would be the best VMAX pokemon we've had so far

Weezing UNB, Noivern, Psychic Malamar, a certain Roxie's weezing list which could become creative etc. Here's the thing about Spread. In our standard format, spread needs to do more damage to take bigger KOs on 270 HP pokemon, it is suboptimal. Add another layer on top with healing from Mallow...

There would be more archetypes to combat this simple playstyle. Spread would be deadly since we are no longer trying to take KOs on 270 HP pokemon. Mill can be a threat if you have no way of dealing with it. And lastly Shedinja combos can throw off prize trading.

Reality Check Tech comes in and this will probably happen :/ They tend to create this near balanced metagame only to introduce some new mechanic to shake it up and turn it over on its head. They are always one text/energy/damage output etc away from balancing them out. From a business standpoint...

True we are only 2 sets in, but these two sets have told us more about what they are trying to go for post rotation vs the metagame with TTGXs. With just these 2 sets we can play a metagame without anything from Sun & Moon. Albiet a lot slower but there are plenty enough consistency boosters +...

-Charizard Vmax: With Welder, I like this card a lot. This is an easy 300 damage which invalidates TTGXs. As most people who have been a victim of turn 2 300 damage Mewtwo Mew TTGX, this is very easy to pull off consistently. Once Welder rotates or will be in a more Vmax focused metagame, it'll...

lol I think we are going in circles because we both agree that's how the game should be. Is this game like that now? Absolutely NOT. It is the complete opposite of your scenario. Thanks to TTGXs and easy energy acceleration As I stated before hand, they haven't printed out any big basics that...

ok...is there something wrong with that though? You opened with a big basic who has a powerful attack but that attack can't be utilized without support from your evolving pokemon on the bench. But if said big basic has no energy acceleration and you're forced to just attach energy manually then...